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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, HERVEY WATERS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk,and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin the Manufacture of Scythes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing, when taken in connection with the drawings which accompanyand form part of this specification, is a description of my inventionsufiicient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it.

The invention relates to the disposition of iron and steel in afagot orpile to be welded into bars for scytherods; and consists in so arrangingthe bars constituting the i'agot that when welded into a bar said barshall have the iron and steel for two scythes side by side and in properrelative position. I

Figure 1 of the drawings represents the arrangementof iron and steelconstituting the fagot as constructed for two scythes, the bar a beingplain, and having between its folds three pieces, the two outer ones, 6,being of fine steel for the edges, and the middle one, 0, of iron orcheap steel for the backs of the same.-

This fagot or pile may be heated and fluxed by any convenientproceeding, so as that the entire piece shall at the same time beproperly heated and fluxed in all its parts, for the purpose of beingwelded throughout by being passed through any suitable rolls for weldingand drawing down into a bar from which scythe-rods can be afterwardsperfected.

In welding and drawing the pile thus constructed and prepared, I preferto make the first pass in the rolls edgewise, in a groove similar to thefirst pass of the suit of grooves represented in profile at Figure 4, soas to bring the edge-steels to positions below the surface of the edgesof the bar of iron, that the edge-steels may not (in rolling downflatwise) get too much upon the outside, which they incline to do.

Figures 2 and 3 represent the fagot as constructed for four scythes,very similar to what is shown in fig. 1, but with variations.

Both of the last two may be welded in substantially the same manner byheating and fiuxing throughout and passing through a suit ofroller-grooves, as represented in profile at fig. 4, and may be thusdrawn and afterwards he made into my improved scythe-rod, patented May2, 1865, (No. 47,589,.) I

I claim a fagot or pile having an arrangement of iron and steel for twoor more scythes, substantially as described.

HERVEY WATERS.

Witnesses:

J. B. CROSBY, Framers GOULD.

